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From: sasbury@NeXT.COM (Stephen Asbury)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce
Subject: JOB: Two Open Positions at Next.
Date: 28 Jan 1994 23:18:24 -0500
Approved: sanguish@digifix.com
Reply-To: Scott_Weiner@next.com
POSITION 1:
Position: Mentorship Project Leader
Location: Redwood City
Hiring Manager: Scott Weiner, 415-780-3806
Mentorship project leaders provide a single point of contact for a
customer. They are responsible for the management of the customer's
education. They work with NEXT's trainers and third- party consulting
resources to create a tailored curriculum for each client. Project
leaders must possess strong project management, technical and
communication skills. The successful candidate will have a mix of
software engineering skills, an understanding of education and enjoy
working with people and new technology.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Project management
- Provide on site remediation for design and programming problems within
the Mentorship program.
- Determine requirements, create design documents and deliverable
proposal for client.
- Teach analysis and design to students. Oversee the development of the
class project.
- Track status on assigned projects and provide weekly update reports to
client and program manager.
- Customize the curriculum based on student profiles and client's special
interests.
- Work with developer trainers to tailor training to the class individuals
and class project requirements.
- Coordinate with consultants assigned to the project.
- Help other Mentor teams with design and implementation issues.
A typical Mentorship project leader will spend one- third of their time in
requirements analysis, proposal development and customizing curriculum.
One- third will be spent in student observation and remediation and
training. One- third is project management within the program.
Assume 4-5 weeks of travel over a fourteen week Mentorship program
Necessary Skills and Requirements:
- Solid software engineering background
- Ability to articulate technically complex issues to a wide variety of
audiences and to train and/or act as consultant for clients
- Strong understanding of object oriented development cycles
- Demonstrated aptitude for working independently while being a team
player
- Ability to work with limited supervision in an autonomous, results-
oriented environment
- Strong problem solving skills
- Ability to juggle multiple tasks
- Minimum of two years developing in NEXTSTEP
- B.S.C.S or 4 years of equivalent experience required; M.S.C.S preferred
Relevant Experience:
- Object- oriented programming
- NeXTSTEP, Objective- C, Mach
- Advanced application programming in C, LISP, and FORTRAN (or
equivalent)
- Windowing application development (Macintosh, X11, MSWindows, etc.)
- Database application development (Sybase, Oracle, etc.)
- PostScript
- Pre- sales support experience
- Experience in consulting, training, technical sales and/or technical
presentation desired
__________________________________________
POSITION 2:
Position: Developer Trainer
Location: Redwood City
Hiring Manager: Ellen Leeb, 415-780-4581
NeXT Computer Inc. is seeking a highly-skilled and energetic person to
join the Developer Training team. The role of the Developer Trainer is to
deliver and develop courses on programming NeXT computer systems.
The Developer Trainer will participate in evaluating the effectiveness of
training and course materials, and help evolve the curriculum and programs
to meet the needs of NeXT's customers, and track new NeXT software and
hardware products.
The skills required to fill this position successfully include:
+ Excellent written and verbal communication skills
+ Ability to deliver classroom training
+ Knowledge of object-oriented programming and Objective-C
+ Knowledge of UNIX and MACH operating systems
+ Knowledge of PostScript
+ Knowledge of NeXTstep
+ Ability to develop and design course curriculum
The experience to fill this position successfully includes:
+ Technical computing, commercial software development, corporate custom
application development
+ Public presentation or training experience.
In addition, experience in program and user interface design, hardware
troubleshooting, and administering NeXT computers are all desirable. This
position requires a person who cares about people, and thrives in a
team-oriented environment. Some travel is required.
++++++++++++++++++++++++
Resumes can be sent to:
Scott Weiner
Mentorship Program Manager
NeXT Computer, Inc
900 Chesapeake Drive
Redwood City, CA 94063
EMAIL:Scott_Weiner@next.com
Fax:415-780-4554
PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH POSITION YOU ARE APPLYING FOR.